Sociology Chapter 6

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Definition of deviance

Any behavior, physical appearance, trait, belief, that is socially challenged and or condemned because it departs from the norms and expect.

Relationship between crime and deviance

deviance is going against norms and crime is also going against what is socially accepted

Definition of social control

methods used to teach, persuade, or force a group's members to comply with and not deviate from its norms

Misassumptions of deviance

statistically rare-bad or immoral-inherently bad-dysfunctional-something we can get rid of-behavior is the concern

3 social foundations of deviance

1. deviance varies according to cultural norms 2.people become deviant as others define them that way 3. Both norms/others rules br

Being sane in insane places

Determined by the audience and depend on culture, time, people, and context

Primary deviance

original action that provokes a deviant label to be placed

Secondary deviance

response to primary and begins to take on deviant identity

Retrospective labeling

A reinterpretation of the person's past in light of some deviance

Projective labeling

using a deviant identity to predict future actions

Stigma

A powerfully negative label that greatly changes a person's self concept and social identity

Differences as deviance/ medicalization of deviance

Treating behavior that is irritating or threatening not as "difference" but as deviance or mental issue

Innovation

using unconventional means to achieve a culturally approved goal

Ritualism

inability to reach a cultural goal prompts the deviance of ritualism

Retreatism

rejecting both cultural goals and the means, individuals "drop out"

Rebellion

reject cultural dimensions of success and conventional means, further step is forming a counterculture alternative

Functionalist view of deviance

binds society together, creates boundaries for non-deviant behavior, and affirms values and norms

Conflict theorist view of deviance

people labeled as deviant are typically those who share the trait of powerlessnness

Deviance and capitalism

deviant labels are applied to the people who interfere with the operation of capitalism

White-collar crime

crime committed by people of high social position in the course of their occupations

corporate crime

the illegal actions of a corporation or people on its behalf

Organized crime

A business supplying illegal goods and services